Phillips Books

Marilyn Monroe, baseball, youthful brothers-in-law and the difficulty of approaching esteemed poets in the streets - these Bagatelles are telling, charmed, staged yet innocent. Delmore is the man.

Gone well before his time. John Phillips was an unparalleled historian and teacher. I used to thumb thru this book at the library at UC Riverside just wondering how anyone could be as hysterical and brilliant as him.

This is an excellent book by well-qualified scholars of an on-trend subject. It is an essential book for all University teachers of writing classes and introductory literature classes. It is highly recommended for all literature professsors--undergraduate and graduate, because it is important to know the context in which our students are reading and writing.

This 1944 book has wonderful recipes. This was to replace a copy lost. My only problem is the rating of Good on the condition of this book I received. I blieve it should have been rated as acceptible, not good. Too much damage for that, I think. Still a wonderful book.

Thrice married Sugar Beth Carey was once the town golden girl of Parrish, Mississippi, but all her past misdeeds and recriminations have caught up with her as she returns to her hometown for the first time in 15 years. Disinherited by the father whose love she always sought but never achieved, she returns to collect an inheritance from her aunt. Instead of the family estate, she is relegated to the carriage house, an abandoned depot, and a valuable work of art that she must find first.

Just about everyone in town is looking forward to her return to even old scores. No one is happier to see her squirm than her former teacher, Colin. Fifteen years earlier, Sugar Beth accused Colin of making a pass at her in order to deflect blame for an embarrassing incident she instigated against her arch nemesis, Winnie Davis. Colin, now a successful writer, resides in her former estate. With no one willing to give her a job, she's stuck working as Colin's maid (which makes for some of the most humorous passages in the novel, particularly when she calls him a prissy Brit and questions his sexuality), and in a turn of events, it is Winne that is the belle of the town.

While Colin entertains revenge fantasies as payback, she disappoints him by rising above it all and swallowing her pride, thereby taking the joy from him. Colin finds himself smitten with this new Sugar Beth, and her former home town realizing that she actually may have grown up and deserves to be forgiven for her past sins.

I never expected to like this book as much as I did, which makes it all the more refreshing. I found it to be captivating and kept me glued to the final page.

Phillips' idea of separation/judgment is brilliant. Now we can start to understand the separation from infinite consciousness or God and how we have bought into the ultimate illusion of separation. His work with clients in altered states of consciousness also demonstrates a remarkable innovation in psychotherapy. By going beyond the mind into the energetic attachments of karma, the client can take personal responsibility for one's own healing and transformation. His symbol of the Divine Child is that power within

Adorable Book to share with the family during the holidays! Bake something sweet, decorate the tree and more. Just spend some Quality time and Treasure your time together with each other. Life is so short. Blessings, Danna .. <><... Happy HOlidays!

I had never heard of the author before, but found the synopsis intriguing enough to purchase a copy of 'The Enchanter's Torment.'
The story is about the last members of a family, who have been cursed with death by an evil group of occultists.
Over five hundred years, these occultists have exacted vengeance on this family by murdering them in gruesome and painful ways; their repayment for an incident which occurred all those years ago. They are now intent on destroying the last members of this family, thus fulfilling the curse placed upon them.
I don't know what I expected from this book; the cover and synopsis seemed intriguing, but you never really know until you have read it how good or bad it will be.
The first chapter wasted no time in introducing the main characters and held my attention.
The second chapter picked up the pace with the first explanation of the incident five hundred years before which resulted in the curse on this family.
Chapter three is quite short - this has the effect of raising the tension quickly and dramatically, and by the end of it, I was thoroughly 'hooked' on the story, and fascinated as to how it would develop.
Chapter four jumps elsewhere, leaving me mildly disappointed that the main theme was not to be amplified upon....but by the time I finished chapter four, the next chapter jumped back to the main story, but by then, I wanted the insights I was being given into this ruthless and evil society to continue.
The author makes excellent use of the technique of building one aspect of the story to a climax, and then switching to another aspect, which then builds up to a climax.....
This is skilfully done, and it was with great reluctance I had to stop reading to get some sleep.
I continued reading it the next day, and found the story no less engrossing. The torture, mutilation and murder of a renegade was very vividly written, and was a superb example of how to set up a dark, threatening atmosphere and to maintain it.
Later in the book, there is a protracted torture sequence which I could not tear myself away from. It shows the occultists at their savage, vicious, depraved worst, and may well be too powerful for some.
Overall, there is an undercurrent of eroticism which is cleverly worked in, and adds to the power of the whole novel.
I found 'The Enchanter's Torment' to be one of the most absorbing books I have read in recent months, and I cannot recommend it too highly.

This was Wylie's last book, and like Twain before him, he was extremely pessimistic about the future of the human race. THE END OF THE DREAM is about inevitable world-wide environmental apocalypse, shortly after the turn of the millennium, in the year 2023. In style and format, it is a predecessor to John Brunner's STAND ON ZANZIBAR and THE SHEEP LOOK UP. Written in a semi-historical, looking backward viewpoint, the storyline follows the exploits of one Miles Smythe, one of society's 'movers and shakers', as he attempts to stave-off various ecological disasters and prepare a safe retreat for the survivors of the imminent world-wide disaster to come. Along the way Wylie postulates fastfood that kills, deadly mutated life-forms, and the spread of new diseases. A must-read for Doomsday aficionados

These days, celebrity authors earn thousands of dollars for a speech, but back in the 1880s, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the first American author known to receive payment for delivering a talk, was paid $5 and oats for his horse.